I want to keep up the blog but what do I write? random thoughts I guess......
The USA
What's Hot:
Costco - What a great idea for people with an extra house to put their groceries in! I love this store... it's almost as good as Pak-n-Save in New Zealand. You can get everything here in bulk, and I do mean bulk! The nacho chips I bought there way back at the start of my trip were $3 or so and lasted a week of intense eating! We found gallon (4 litre) containers of Mayo!!! lol
Transit - NY subway system has to be one of the best in the world. $1.25 when you enter a station and you can go wherever you want, change lines, do whatever. DC's is good as well, you put your ticket in at the departing station and take it out at the arrival station, it calculates the fare and takes it off your 'smartcard'.
Numbered Streets - While slightly boring, the system of numbering streets makes it so easy to get around. It is pretty hard to ever get lost in New York City!
What's Not:
High Fructose Corn Syrup - It's in EVERYTHING!
Pizza - Yes I want to pay $12 for a pizza that only has cheese on it. And yes I am happy to pay 1.50 per topping!!! You've got to be kidding. Also the pizza is rubbish anyway.... the US needs a major influx of Italians.... or Australians.
Big Cars - If the US needed to mobilise it's citizens for an all out countryside attack on another country it could easily do it without having to supply them with big trucks. Everyone here drives military size vehicles. What global warming problem? Our European friends would freak out. Suprisingly California was the worst exponent of this, a place which is supposed to be fairly sensitive to environmental issues. The 'big cars' we have in Australia look like matchbox cars compared to these things.
MTV - Yes lets have a music tv station that plays the same shit every single day!!! The TV equivelent of triple m
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3 comments:
Hi Mate,
You might like to write about how wonderful it is to be back in OZ.. Photos of the beach, BBQ's, weather.... Babes would also be welcome but not for me of course..
Make those people in the USA and UK and Japan really jealous..
Best country in the world!!
Dad.
i enjoyed my two weeks back in the burbs frank ;)
THOUGH
dave... i would like to osusume the following to the hot/not list.... for no apparent reason...
HOT: Chuck Norris. 'Nuff said!
NOT: Yuri. people who steal money and are fuckheads ARENT VERY NICE. THEY SHOULD HAVE THEIR ASS KICKED.
ps. hi from japan!
drew.
Dave,
Yes...isn't it sad about MTV.
When it first came out(17+ yrs ago), it was very, very cutting edge and art-y. They had great programs and very original music.
Like most terrific, new and innovative things, it was bought by a big corp. (Fox? Sony music?)
Slowly programming changed from fun and interresting to very mainstream. More and more advertising was introduced.
Alas! The idiot corporate giants who are so focused on making a profit..
They always seem to use the same formula to ruin the unique. Then lose the majority of their viewers because of the stale nature of what they do...yet claim to be 'in the dark' as to why their program is no longer popular.
Will it ever stop?
Where IS that cure for cancer?
Where IS that car enguine that runs on water?
Triple M...DO they still exist?
SO happy you are home!
Love Jan
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